Clara Aurora Liljenroth

Clara Aurora Liljenroth (7 June 1772 – 28 February 1836) was one of the first women in Sweden to attend a gymnasium.

Liljenroth was born at Visingsö, Sweden, a daughter of professor Sven Peter Liljenroth, lecturer in the gymnasium of Visingsö. She was accepted as a pupil after having excelled in a test were she gave proof of high academic knowledge in sciences and Latin. She was formally accepted as a student at the gymnasium at Visingsö 8 December 1780. The same term, she gave a public speech to the school and several other important guests on the return of King Gustav III of Sweden from his travels in foreign countries and on the birth of the crown prince. She died at Ramsberg, Sweden.

Liljenroth was not the only one of these exceptions. She was, in fact, not the first one. In 1644, Ursula Agricola from Strasbourg was accepted as a student at Visingsö gymnasium, followed in 1645 by Maria Jonae Palmgren from Grenna at the same school. Hedvig Eleonora Klingenstierna, (born 1660) taught Latin at the Gymnasium of Linköping in Latin, and Erika Leibman (1738–1803), the daughter of a professor at the University of Lund, was allowed to attend the classes and became widely known both in Sweden and other countries as a "learned lady". The first official Swedish female university student, however, was Betty Pettersson.

See also

• Sophia Elisabet Brenner
• Anna Åkerhjelm

References

• http://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0266.html (Swedish)
• http://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0243.html (Swedish)
• http://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0265.html (Swedish)
• Den notis hennes berömmelse vilar på (Swedish)
• http://www.ub.gu.se/kvinn/digtid/02/1880/index.xml (Swedish)
• http://www.ub.gu.se/kvinn/digtid/02/1880/02/tfh1880_2_84_91.pdf#02084 (Swedish)
• Wilhelmina Stålberg: Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (Notes on Swedish women) (Swedish)

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Name	Liljeroth, Charlotta
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Date of birth	7 June 1772
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Date of death	28 February 1836
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